The WordMeister

As described in earlier posts, Word 2007 and Word 2010 don’t properly save number formats to number-type form fields. So I decided to try my hand at my first serious manipulation of Office Open XML files. As I felt more comfortable with old-fashioned XML coding, the tool presented in that post only leveraged the Open […]

Having overcome the obstacle mentioned in my last post, I continued work on a small tool to manage the number formatting of number form fields in Word documents. While becoming acquainted with the principles of Open XML I’ve always felt there are too few samples demonstrating how to work with the various Office applications. So […]

One of the most frustrating things for Word power users and developers is the accumulation of “bugs” in the product. If a problem is not caught early in the beta stage, it’s often around to stay. When pressed, the product team will often say that changing “expected behavior” will break backwards compatibility. Another reason we hear […]